Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion: Protocol No. 8

We must arm ourselves with all the weapons which our
opponents might employ against us. We must search out in the very
finest shades of expression and the knotty points of the lexicon
of law justification for those cases where we shall have to
pronounce judgments that might appear abnormally audacious and
unjust, for it is important that these resolutions should be set
forth in expressions that shall seem to be the most exalted moral
principles cast into legal form. Our directorate must surround
itself with all these forces of civilization among which it will
have to work. It will surround itself with publicists, practical
jurists, administrators, diplomats and, finally, with persons
prepared by a special super-educational training in our special
schools. These persons will have cognisance of all the secrets of
the social structure, they will know all the languages that can
be made up by political alphabets and words; they will be made
acquainted with the whole underside of human nature, with all its
sensitive chords on which they will have to play. These chords
are the cast of mind of the goyim, their tendencies,
shortcomings, vices and qualities, the particularities of classes
and conditions. Needless to say that the talented assistants of
authority, of whom I speak, will be taken not from among the
goyim, who are accustomed to perform their administrative work
without giving themselves the trouble to think what its aim is,
and never consider what it is needed for. The administrators of
the goyim sign papers without reading them, and they serve either
for mercenary reasons or from ambition.

We shall surround our government with a whole world of
economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the
principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews. Around us
again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists,
capitalists and -- the main thing millionaires, because in
substance everything will be settled by the question of figures.

For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in
entrusting responsible posts in our States to our brother Jews,
we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and
reputation are such that between them and the people lies an
abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions,
must face criminal charges or disappear -- this in order to make
them defend our interests to their last gasp.